Comments on: When a “C” is Not Good Enough

By: BSV Sey

BSV Sey — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:29:40 +0000

The society at large is certainly operating at a lightning pace. What comes around goes around. You would have to be strong as things can be quite nasty as kids grow up. We have all met some of the pressures when we grew up. The younger generation is surely worse than ours. The solution is to have holidays. Kids can see for themselves how other people in different countries conduct their affairs as opposed to Singaporean. Let the kids have the necessary exposure because they would need to fend for themselves not you.

By: 小猫

小猫 — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:39:21 +0000

All 3 of them!

I do not really mix around with the parents or maids or grandmas of other kids, but i sure can feel the pressure too…. its pretty frightening. You can hear from the conversations that practically all of the kids nowadays have to go for their Tuition Classes….

Its like that, most parents nowadays do not have the time to teach their kids. While most stay at home mums I know are unable to teach their kids. (Lots of them are not home grown singaporeans.

Just last friday I overheard a grandma telling 2 mothers how pitiful the kids are today. She could not understand why parents want to stress the kids so much (she was complaining that her son and daughter-in-law stressing her 2 grandsons). After the grandma left, the 2 mothers was talking to each other that it can’t be helped as they want the children to have an easier time when they are adults….

What do you think? Is it peer? society or ???

By: 小猫

小猫 — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:28:35 +0000

thanks bro, was too tight up with the kids to tell you the whole story.
I looked through the very piece of maths paper that the teacher was shouting at him that day, he did One question wrong, while rest of them (3 long questions) he did it after the teacher keep scolding him… he did them all correctly in fact. It was the start of the new week after the one week holiday. I had the feeling that the teachers kanna from principal or something, cos I heard quite a lot of stories that week about other teachers in other classes as well……

By: BSV Sey

BSV Sey — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:58:55 +0000

Your eldest is reacting to the adult in a straightforward manner. If there is any blame, I would naturally pin it to the teacher. Your boy realised that his teacher was not at all forgiving. As the saying goes ‘To err is human’, this teacher needs to chill out especially on a boy who dreams and very trusting (for his age). Of course, teacher is human after all but they should not kill the dream of kids (Not yet)!

By: zhen

zhen — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:20:18 +0000

i realised that kids are giving themselves a lot of stress nowadays.

i got a fren’s child who will cry if she didn’t get A. the parents didn’t give her the stress, but she don’t allow herself to get B.

is it the stress from teachers? or peers? or the society?